geographer

noun ge·og·ra·pher \ jē-ˈä-grə-fər \

|Updated on: 9 Jun 2018

Definition of geographer

: a specialist in geography

Recent Examples of geographer from the Web

An international team of planetary scientists, physicists and geographers looked at detailed photos of Pluto's surface, captured by New Horizons, that offered a bird's eye view of the dwarf planet's active surface.

— ashley strickland, CNN, "Pluto has 'Earth-like characteristics,' study says," 31 May 2018
The junior geographers reassembled Wednesday at National Geographic headquarters to put their knowledge to the ultimate test, reports CBS News' Chip Reid.

— CBS News, "National Geographic Bee champion wins with a guess," 24 May 2018
So geographers in Afric-maps / With savage-pictures fill their gaps.

— a. roger ekirch, WSJ, "‘The Phantom Atlas’ Review: Maps With Gaps," 5 Apr. 2018
To geographers, an exclave is a portion of some country or territory that's separated from the main part by intervening territory belonging to someone else.

— ken jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, "People Have Been Arguing About Nakhchivan Since 'The Flood'," 21 May 2018
With map reading at its core, geography is considered a spatial subject, and boys tend to have a slight advantage in spatial skills, according to research by Liben and a geographer at Penn State, Roger Downs.

— NBC News, "54 students are in the National Geographic Bee finals. Just 4 are girls.," 20 May 2018
Keith Clarke, a geographer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, says the study is an interesting use of optimization.

— david shultz, Science | AAAS, "This ocean path will take you on the longest straight-line journey on Earth," 30 Apr. 2018
The term was not invented by geographers but by a politician and the media.

— anne trubek, Time, "Our Collective Ignorance About the Rust Belt Is Getting Dangerous," 3 Apr. 2018
Baber’s unapologetic speech was emblematic of her work as both a geographer and activist—two parts of her life that often blended and intertwined.

— leila mcneill, Smithsonian, "The Woman Who Transformed How We Teach Geography," 18 Jan. 2018

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